NEW AUSTRALIA SCHEME.
SERIOUS DISSENSIONS.
THE SETTLEMENT BREAKING UP.
. A CONSIDERABLE EXODUS. Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copy rip
. Adelaide, March 10. Fcether letters have been received from the settlers at the New Australia settlement in Paraguay. They describe the recent ejection of several members for breaking the rules as resembling in many respects an Irish eviction.
Subsequent to the evictions official notice was posted intimating that the families desirous of leaving the settlement would be allowed £6 5s for . man and wife, and half that amount for each child; while single men would receive £4 16s.
Fifteen married couples and seventeen single men accepted the offer and removed their belongings from the settlement. '■'.'..'.' ■ ;
The people who left had paid in about sixteen hundred pounds, and on leaving received something under three hundred pounds. Those persons who left the settlement, numbering in all about eighty-one, are now assembled at Villa Rica, and have laid their situation before the British Consul. ___ _~ ;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9456, 12 March 1894, Page 5
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